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A special episode of game show hosts featured Nick Weir (of Catchphrase and Grudge Match), Jeremy Beadle (of Win Beadle's Money and Chain Letters), Nicholas Parsons (of Just a Minute and Sale of the Century), and Henry Kelly (of Going for Gold.) Beadle won the show, having eliminated all the wrong keys, and sticking the right key in with just 1 second to go.

A Tale of Two Kitties

(This line was patterned after a catchphrase from a Red Skelton character, and would be used in other Warner cartoons, such as Easter Yeggs.)

Alex Pareene

Pareene has been a frequent critic of reality star Donald Trump, known for his show Celebrity Apprentice where he uses the catchphrase "You're Fired!" to dismiss celebrity contestants competing for charity.

Alexis Mateo

With a personal catchphrase ("BAM!"), and a strong, yet friendly personality, especially when confronting other contestants (Carmen Carrera) and judges (Michelle Visage), Mateo became one of the most memorable contestants of the season.

Along Came Daffy

Along Came Daffy is one of only two Warner Bros. shorts (the other being Honey's Money) in which Yosemite Sam is not paired with Bugs Bunny (although at one point Daffy does ask, "What's cookin', Doc?", a variant of Bugs's "What's up, Doc?" catchphrase along with the famous "eh" and the imitated 'carrot chewing').

Boom goes the dynamite

ESPN SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt sent Collins words of encouragement and paid homage to him using the "boom" catchphrase on the air several times.

Buster Merryfield

Merryfield joined Only Fools and Horses in January 1985, as the former seafaring Albert Gladstone Trotter, known as Uncle Albert, who was Grandad Trotter's globetrotting long-lost brother, and who was known for Uncle Albert's catchphrase of "During the war..."

Churchill Insurance Company

The catchphrase is believed to be an impersonation of Potter the janitor (played by Deryck Guyler) from the 1970s TV series Please Sir!.

Danno

Danny Williams, a fictional character from the Hawaii Five-O television series, whence the catchphrase "Book 'em, Danno!"

Desman

One of the main characters in Noah's Island, Sasha, is a friendly but simple-minded desman known for the catchphrase "Hoisky Poisky".

Don't Forget the Diver

#The title pays homage to the wartime catchphrase of Tommy Handley in the ITMA shows, 'Don't forget the diver sir; do not forget the diver' about the character Deepend Dan.

Draftee Daffy

The demon takes off his mask to reveal he's the man from the draft board, who then replies with the popular catchphrase of the "Richard Q. Peavey" character from The Great Gildersleeve, "Well, now, I wouldn't say that," (same as what Bugs Bunny, in his elderly form, says at the end of the Merrie Melodies cartoon, The Old Grey Hare) and proceeds to chase Daffy into the distance, letter still in hand.

Euglossa bazinga

It is named after the catchphrase of the fictional character Dr. Sheldon Cooper from the television show The Big Bang Theory.

Freebie marketing

Among American businessmen, this gave rise to the catchphrase "Oil for the lamps of China." Alice Tisdale Hobart's novel Oil for the Lamps of China was a fictional treatment of the phenomenon.

From Method to Madness

To critique Stewie's solo acting exercise, Olivia quotes Anne Robinson's catchphrase on The Weakest Link, "You are the weakest link, goodbye!", prompting Stewie to launch a lengthy tirade in which he asks "Have you any Titanic jokes to throw at me as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity?"

Fu-Schnickens

The group recorded a fast-paced song called "What's up, Doc?" which featured a sample of Bugs Bunny saying his famous catchphrase.

Grape-Nuts

A subsequent ad campaign generated another catchphrase, as Euell Gibbons became the spokesperson for the brand, promoting Grape-Nuts as the "Back to Nature Cereal".

Great Scott

As a distinctive but inoffensive exclamation, it has been widely used as a catchphrase in popular fiction, including the works of Mark Twain, the Rathbone–Bruce Sherlock Holmes films (said by Dr. Watson), Silver Age comics (especially Superman), the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Back to the Future films (Dr. Emmett Brown).

Harry Hill's TV Burp

Series 8: Hole in the Wall and the catchphrase "Bring On The Wall" was often used, with a cameo from presenter Dale Winton, a wobbling jelly, originally from Heston Blumenthal series ...Feast, featured regularly, with the use of The Surfaris' "Wipe Out", a puppet shark, Eoghan Quigg's vote face, mimicked by Harry and mispronounced as 'EE-OG-HAN', and The Lion Man theme used in celebration.

Hello Kaun? Pehchaan Kaun

After the several dialogues of Sholay entered into the psyche and mannerisms of Indians, this is perhaps the first catchphrase to so enter the Indian psyche.

The name of the show is a take on the catchphrase Pehchan Kaun (translation: Guess Who?) first popularized by Navin Prabhakar in his appearances in The Great Indian Laughter Challenge.

Joe Bowen

Recently, he appeared in a TV commercial for Harvey's promoting the "bigger" Angus Burger and used his famous aforementioned catchphrase.

Joey Styles

Moment of the Year award at the 2008 Slammy Awards with Alicia Fox, saying his famous "Oh My God!" catchphrase.

Just Like That

"Just Like That", a catchphrase of the comedian and magician Tommy Cooper and, hence, also the name of a tribute show to Cooper

Kosuke Fukudome

In April 2008, a souvenir stand selling unlicensed Cubs apparel sold a t-shirt bearing the Cubs cartoon bear wearing over-sized Harry Caray-style glasses encircled by the phrase "Horry Kow" (an Engrish play on Caray's "Holy Cow!" catchphrase) in cartoonish Asian script below.

Lew Lehr

Lew Lehr (May 14, 1895 – March 6, 1950) was a comedian, writer and editor known for his humorous contributions to Fox Movietone News, his radio appearances and his popular catchphrase, "Monkeys is the cwaziest peoples."

Little Lost Soul

The fact that it was a famous wrestler's catchphrase was the source of some disappointment to the artist.

Make My Day

"Go ahead, make my day", a catchphrase used by the fictional film character Dirty Harry Callahan, portrayed by Clint Eastwood

Marijana Mićić

During 2008, while hosting Najgori od sve dece, she and her co-host, Maca, came up with a sentence which later became their catchphrase: "Najav'la!".

Michael Vale

Michael Vale (June 28, 1922 – December 24, 2005) was an American commercial actor famous for being the longtime sleepy-eyed mascot "Fred the Baker" for donut chain Dunkin' Donuts, with his famous catchphrase "Time to make the donuts."

Motherfucker

The word has become something of a catchphrase for actor Samuel L. Jackson, who frequently utters the word in his movies.

Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh

Although the original show is not specifically mentioned, the reference to a Wellington bomber, Sam Costa's catchphrase "Good morning, sir, was there something?" and the response of the audience are obvious references to Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.

Nick Weir

Following Catchphrase, Weir served as entertainment consultant on board the Celebrity Eclipse as well as other Solstice Class ships, Celebrity Cruises' newest line of vessels.

Phil McCall

In addition to his role in films and television, McCall was the centerpoint in Knorr's stock cube advertising campaign in the 1980s, which included the famous catchphrase "Pea and ham soup from a chicken, now that's clever".

Political Google bombs in the 2004 U.S. Presidential election

Political blogger George Johnston of Old Fashioned Patriot claimed to be the coordinator of this particular Google bomb, which began a month after the Dick Gephardt campaign began using the catchphrase "miserable failure" to attack the administration.

Put 'Em Under Pressure

The title was a catchphrase of then manager Jack Charlton, whose soundbites were sampled for the verse; the chorus was a combination of the familiar football chant "Olé Olé Olé" and a reworking of "Ally's Tartan Army" (which was itself set to the tune of "God Save Ireland"), the unofficial theme tune for Scotland in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, and for 13 weeks the song was at number one in the Irish Singles Chart.

Sherlock Hemlock

His catchphrase is "Egad!" which he exclaims whenever he makes a discovery.

Shuckey Duckey

He was parodied on Saturday Night Live by Bobby Moynihan as "Slappy Pappy," with the catchphrase "Slappy Pappy Wink Wink."

Fellow Texan, and former commentator of WWE SmackDown, Booker T has been known to use Armstrong's catchphrase to express his appreciation for the beauty of the female talent.

Six-Five Special

Josephine Douglas and (initially) disc jockey Pete Murray were its presenters, with Murray using the catchphrase "Time to jive on the old six five".

Spunky

The title is similar to Rocko's catchphrase in which that a day "is a very dangerous day", (e.g., "Garbage Day is a very dangerous day.").

STV Productions

STV Productions have produced many shows, including: Scottish Passport, The Hour, Catchphrase, The Poison Tree, Fake Reaction, Antiques Road Trip and many more.

The Boston Teens

The characters are very devoted fans of the Boston Red Sox, and use the name of former star shortstop Nomar Garciaparra as a catchphrase, though with a highly affected Boston accent, pronounced as "Nomah!"

The Old Grey Hare

However, Bugs suddenly pops in and repeats the popular catchphrase of the "Richard Q. Peavey" character from The Great Gildersleeve, "Well, now, I wouldn't say that," plants a kiss on Elmer, then hands him a large firecracker with a lit fuse, and quickly departs.

Throw out the baby with the bath water

It is a common catchphrase in German, with examples of its use in work by Martin Luther, Johannes Kepler, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Otto von Bismarck, Thomas Mann and Günter Grass.

Wacaday

In fact, many of Timmy's trademarks, such as his giant pink mallet, Magic, Pinky Punky (introduced in 1990) and Timmy's 'bleugh!' catchphrase originated on Wacaday.

WYSIWYG

The phrase "What you see is what you get", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona "Geraldine" (from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974).

XHNZ-FM

In 2010, XHNZ was sued by announcer Michael Buffer for using his trademark catchphrase "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" without permission for $175,000(USD).


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